Hand tools manufacturer in China producing the product category most often mostly Fastening Tools products, such as basic hand drill, impact wrench sets and modular, etc., but these products have a high growth potential. Currently, the ...
Tags: Hand Tools, Hardware
GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
Tags: Domestic Market, China, Decoration
The Brazilian industry and foreign trade ministry's commerce chamber, Camex, has announced that it has reduced the import duty for heavy plates from 12 percent to two percent due to supply shortage in the domestic market. The cut in ...
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Dominican steelmakers Industrias Nacionales (Inca) and Metaldom completed their merger, the companies said Wednesday, and will now be known as Gerdau Metaldom. According to Gerdau, which controls 79.97 percent of Inca, "the first ...
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With the development of stationery industry in this two years,we can obviously feel the position of current domestic stationery industry has been changed from mainly on the export to pay equal attention to both inside and outside market, ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies
The spot price of South Africa-origin charge chrome (48-52% Cr) was assessed by Platts at 79-80 cents/lb CIF on Friday, down from 80-81 cents/lb CIF China a week ago, on slow demand and ample supply. A deal was confirmed at 80 cents/lb ...
Tags: Ferrochrome, Chrome Import, Metallurgy
Between January and August 2014, China shipped 5.4 million tons of rolled steel to Latin America, 54 percent more than the 3.5 million metric tons in the same period in 2013, Alacero reported this week. Alacero said the demand for steel ...
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Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has announced its production and sales data for the third quarter of the current year. According to the company statement, NLMK's crude steel output in the third quarter increased to 4.131 million ...
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In the January-August period of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 3.9 percent on year-on-year basis to 4.23 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 81 percent of ...
Unilever Thailand will invest around THB8bn ($246m) in the country to expand its operations over the next three years. Of the total investment, around THB1.5bn ($46.1m) will be employed in the construction of an ice cream cold storage ...
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In August this year, Thailand's total motor vehicle output (excluding motorcycles) amounted to 140,797 units, down 27.08 percent year on year, according to a report released by the Thailand Automotive Institute. On the other hand, ...
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Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first half of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 176 million ($24.6 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 302 million in the first half of 2013. ...
Tags: Ezz Steel, long steel
In August this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.82 million mt, increasing by 0.27 percent year on year and by 9.03 percent compared to July, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, domestic market
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has predicted that there would be an increase in the demand of Indian textiles in the domestic and global markets. In a statement, CITI chairman Prem Malik said there was a decline in ...
In August this year, South Korea's total automotive (cars and commercial vehicles) output amounted to 272,744 units, down 33.4 percent month on month and declining by 20.6 percent year on year, according to a report released by the Korea ...
Tags: cars, commercial vehicles, Auto Output